By now, the entire world is talking about the horrific Manchester terror attack that killed 22 and injured scores. But attention is now also turning to President Trump's horrific comments in the aftermath. In his first test of public speaking after a terror attack, the frat boy bro from Queens — who has spent his entire adult life vanquishing the demon of low self image — called the perpetrators "losers."

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Reading the text of Trump's comments is one thing, but hearing it is another. Click on the video above. It's essential because only by watching Trump read his prepared remarks that you realize that Trump isn't merely saying, "These guys are losers." He's just recalling some high school taunt from the 1980s to define terrorism.

Trump’s response to the Manchester blast was to call the attackers “evil losers.” (THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images)

"So many young beautiful innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life," Trump said early this morning. "I won't call them 'monsters' because they would like that term. They would think that's a great name. I will call them from now on 'losers' because that's what they are. They're losers. And we'll have more of them. But they're losers. Just remember that."

"Loser" is a particularly juvenile name for evil-doers. When I was in high school, a "loser" was someone who wasn't in the "in" crowd (see pictures of me in high school). It was a random insult hurled without thought at a kid who didn't fit it. It did not mean that said person was going to commit a terrorist act that killed 22.

And Trump isn't merely channeling Jim Carrey when he speaks of terrorists as "losers." He's also doing his own version of Alec Baldwin's imitation of him — perhaps the sincerest form of flattery.

People are escorted from the Manchester Arena on May 23 in Manchester, England after the explosion at an Ariana Grande concert. (Dave Thompson/Getty Images)

But is that the best our President can offer? Even George W. Bush, a politician who was truly born with a silver foot in his mouth, managed to inspire the nation with his famous "bullhorn" speech amid the destroyed Twin Towers a few days after 9/11, saying, "The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."

With his "evil losers" speech, Trump isn't inspiring greatness or even summoning the dark but sometimes necessary clouds of retribution against the criminals who committed the Manchester bombings. Instead, they're just losers that you defeat by building bigger buildings or marrying hotter wives.

Is this how we want our President to talk about global terror? To me, he's the one who sounds like a loser.